u/ActualTelevision8409

## E-City: Let It Burn? Why Are We So Silent? 🔥😶

The sky in E-City is turning to lead 🌫️,

The blue is gone, and the black has spread.

Remember **April 1st**? The world saw the fire 🔥,

The smoke at **Doddathogur** rising higher and higher.

The viral videos, the **Ajmera** haze 😷,

Living our lives in a toxic daze.

Do we treat this land as a place to just stay? 🏢

Work our nine-to-five and then look away?

If this was the soil where our ancestors stood,

Would we protect it the way that we should?

Or is it just "office," a "park," or a "lane,"

Where we ignore the smoke and ignore the pain?

It’s the silent poison that makes our kids slow,

Plastic and rubber in a hellish glow 🚛.

The **Chief Minister** gave the order to act 📜,

The **Police Commissioner** stated the fact.

The **BBMP** chief said the fires must end 📢,

But on the ground, nothing changes, my friend.

We sit on our sofas, clicking a phone 📸,

Posting a photo while we’re safe and alone.

The officials just watch, or they look away 🙈,

While the garbage piles up, day after day.

But a viral post doesn’t clear the sky,

And a "like" or a "share" is just a digital sigh.

What if we stopped just standing aside? 🛑

And treated this city with hometown pride?

Could we take a day leave, just one single day 🗓️,

To clear 1 square meter and throw it away? 🧹

If a thousand hands cleaned a 1000 spots 🧤,

We’d stop the fires in the empty lots.

It’s time to stop watching the black air rise ⬆️,

And look at the world through our children's eyes.

Let’s heal the ground and the air that we share 🌍,

Because it **is** our home... if we actually care. 🙌✨

u/ActualTelevision8409 — 18 days ago